Texas Beardogs were once real beasts

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http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1012/Did-beardogs-come-from-Texas-Extinct-Chihuahua-sized-animal-yields-clues

>An extinct family of carnivorans known as beardogs may have had humble beginnings in what is today southern North America, suggests a discovery in the archives of Chicago's Field Museum

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/10/160518

>Although the animals have been extinct for a few million years, "Beardogs represent a very successful group of carnivores that thrived in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America," Xiaoming Wang, curator and chair of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, who was not part of the research, writes in an email to the Monitor. "In their hey days, they were apex predators at various times."
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